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Theatre Arts Workshop (TAW)
The Theatre Arts Workshop (TAW) is a non-profit making, registered cultural organization established in 1966, in Lucknow, India. As well as the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, TAW produces new work from living artists and develops creative links with theatre-makers. TAW will celebrate its 50 anniversary in March 2016. Foundation and history In December 1963, ten members organized a theatre play and put through a programme – ''An Evening with Young Actors'' – which included Edna St. Vincent Millay's ''Aria da Capo'', scenes from ''Twelfth Night'' and ''Macbeth'', ''The Valiant'' and a dramatized reading of Hamlet, Eliot, ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''. Raj Bisaria produced and directed all the plays, and decided to register a theatre group with a managing body and using local talent. A bilingual group theatre (English and Hindi), the central concern the development of a genuine interest in theatre-craft and creating within its scope, a theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucknow
Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Lucknow district, district and Lucknow division, division. Having a population of 2.8 million as per 2011 census, it is the List of cities in India by population, eleventh most populous city and List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, the twelfth-most populous urban agglomeration of India. Lucknow has always been a Multiculturalism, multicultural city that flourished as a North Indian cultural and artistic hub, and the seat of power of Nawabs in the 18th and 19th centuries. It continues to be an important centre of governance, administration, education, commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, information technology, design, culture, tourism, music, and poetry. Lucknow, along with Agra and Varanasi, is in the Uttar P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the chief editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine '' Dharmayug'', from 1960 till 1987.The Illustrated weekly of India: Volume 108, Issues 39–50, 1987. Bharati was awarded the Padma Shree for literature in 1972 by the Government of India. His novel '' Gunaho Ka Devta'' became a classic. Bharati's '' Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda'' is considered a unique experiment in story-telling and was made into a National Film Award-winning movie by the same name in 1992 by Shyam Benegal. '' Andha Yug'', a play set immediately after the Mahabharata war, is a classic that is frequently performed in public by drama groups He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Playwriting (Hindi) in 1988, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. Early life Dharamvir Bharati was born on 25 December 1926 in a Kayast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Public Eye (play)
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The Caretaker (play)
''The Caretaker'' is a drama in three acts by Harold Pinter. Although it was the sixth of his major works for stage and television, this psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers and a tramp, became Pinter's first significant commercial success. It premiered at the Arts Theatre Club in London's West End on 27 April 1960 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre the following month, where it ran for 444 performances before departing London for Broadway. In 1963, a film version of the play based on Pinter's unpublished screenplay was directed by Clive Donner. The movie starred Alan Bates as Mick and Donald Pleasence as Davies in their original stage roles, while Robert Shaw replaced Peter Woodthorpe as Aston. First published by both Encore Publishing and Eyre Methuen in 1960, ''The Caretaker'' remains one of Pinter's most celebrated and oft-performed plays. Plot summary Act I ''A night in winter'' ; cene 1Aston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barefoot In Athens
''Barefoot in Athens'' is a 1966 ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' television film directed by George Schaefer. It stars Peter Ustinov, Geraldine Page, Anthony Quayle, Lloyd Bochner and Christopher Walken in his film debut. Plot The film concerns the trial and last days of Socrates. Cast *Peter Ustinov as Socrates *Geraldine Page as Xantippe * Anthony Quayle as King Pausanias of Sparta * Lloyd Bochner as Critias * Christopher Walken as Lamprocles * Salome Jens as Theodote *Eric Berry as Meletos *Frank Griso as Lysis Production Development The film was adapted by Robert Hartung from the 1951 Maxwell Anderson James Maxwell Anderson (December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist, and lyricist. Anderson faced many challenges in his career, frequently losing jobs for expressing his opinions or supporting ... play of the same name. Reception Awards Ustinov won an Emmy Award for his performance in this film. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleuth (play)
''Sleuth'' is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The Broadway production received the Tony Award for Best Play, and Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. The play was adapted for feature films in 1972, 2007 and 2014. Plot summary The play is set in the Wiltshire manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer. Wyke's home reflects his obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing. He lures his wife's lover Milo Tindle to the house and convinces him to stage a robbery of her jewelry. This proposal sets off a chain of events that leaves the audience trying to decipher where Wyke's imagination ends and reality begins. Shaffer said the play was partially inspired by one of his friends, composer Stephen Sondheim, whose intense interest in game-playing is mirrored by the character of Wyke, and by mystery writer John Dickson Carr, whose stories fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Father (Strindberg Play)
''The Father'' () is a Naturalism (theatre), naturalistic tragedy by Sweden, Swedish playwright August Strindberg, written in 1887. It is about the struggle between parents over the future of their child; resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father. Plot Captain Adolph, an officer of the cavalry, and his wife, Laura, have a disagreement regarding the education of their daughter Bertha. Laura wants her to stay at home and become an artist, while Adolph wants Bertha to move into town and study to be a teacher. Adolph says that his decision is final, and that the law supports him, because, he points out, the woman sells her rights when she agrees to be married. The argument grows and becomes fierce. Laura, cunning & manipulative, suggests that Adolph may in fact have no rights in the matter. Laura lies to the family doctor that Adolph may be mad, because, as an amateur scientist, he thinks he has discovered life on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida (play)
''Candida'' (Shavian script, Shavian: 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑛𐑦𐑛𐑳), a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his ''Plays Pleasant''. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian era, Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from her husband. The cleric is a Christian socialism, Christian Socialist, allowing Shaw (who was a Fabian Society, Fabian Socialist) to weave political issues, current at the time, into the story. Shaw attempted but failed to have a London production of the play put on in the 1890s, but there were two small provincial productions. However, in late 1903 actor Arnold Daly had such a great success with the play that Shaw would write by 1904 that New York was seeing "an outbreak of Candidamania". The Royal Court Theatre in London perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbo (play)
Garbo may refer to: People *Greta Garbo (1905–1990), Swedish actress *Gunnar Garbo (1924–2016), Norwegian journalist and politician *Ingvald Garbo (1891–1941), member of the Norwegian Resistance in WWII *Norman Garbo (1919–2017), American author, lecturer and painter *Raffaellino del Garbo (1466), Florentine painter *Juan Pujol García (1912–1988), codename "Garbo", Spanish double agent for the British *Garbo (singer) (Renato Abate, born 1958), Italian singer *Greg Garbowsky (born 1986), known as Garbo, American musician Places *Għarb, Gozo, Malta *Garbo, Tibet Arts and entertainment * ''Garbo'' (film), a 1992 Australian comedy * ''Garbo'' (2005 film), a documentary about Greta Garbo by Kevin Brownlow *Garbo, a fictional character in American TV drama ''Dirt'' Other uses *"Garbo", Australian slang for a waste collector *Garbo (Darawiish) Garbo may refer to: People *Greta Garbo (1905–1990), Swedish actress *Gunnar Garbo (1924–2016), Norwegian journalist and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antigone (Anouilh Play)
Jean Anouilh's play ''Antigone'' () is a tragedy inspired by the play of the same name by Sophocles. Performance history Original production ''Antigone'' was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Atelier on February 6, 1944, during the Nazi occupation. Produced under Nazi censorship, the play is purposefully ambiguous with regard to the rejection of authority (represented by Antigone) and the acceptance of it (represented by Creon). The parallels to the French Resistance and the Nazi occupation are clear, however. The original cast included Monelle Valentin (Antigone), Jean Davy (Créon), Suzanne Flon (Ismène), and André Le Gall (Hémon); the staging, decor and costumes were by André Barsacq. British première ''Antigone'' received its British première by the Old Vic Theatre Company at the New Theatre, London, on 10 February 1949. The production was produced by Laurence Olivier (who also played the role of Chorus) and had the following cast: *''Chorus'' - L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andha Yug
''Andha Yug'' (Hindi: अंधा युग, ''The Age of Blindness'' or ''The Blind Age'') is a 1953 verse play written in Hindi, by renowned novelist, poet, and playwright Dharamvir Bharati (1926–1997). Set in the last day of the Great Mahabharat war, the five-act tragedy was written in the years following the 1947 partition of India atrocities, as allegory to its destruction of human lives and ethical values. It is a metaphoric meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood and that war dehumanized individuals and society. Thus both the victor and the vanquished lose eventually. Rubin, p. 195 The anti-war play first created sensation as a radio play at Allahabad All India Radio. This led to its production by Mumbai-based theatre director, Satyadev Dubey (1962), and subsequent famous production by theatre doyen Ebrahim Alkazi against the backdrop of historical monuments in Delhi (like Feroz Shah Kotla and Purana Qila). It became "a national theatrical e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abelard And Heloise (play) ", a poem by Alexander Pope
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The phrase Abelard and Heloise generally refers to the famous 12th-century Parisian love affair between Peter Abelard and Héloïse d’Argenteuil. It may also refer to artistic works based on their story: * ''Abelard and Heloise'' (album), a 1970 album by the Third Ear Band * ''Abelard and Heloise'', a play by Ronald Millar * ''Abelard and Heloise'', a book by Constant Mews See also *"Eloisa to Abelard ''Eloisa to Abelard'' is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in a large number of English imitations thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
